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Vol 67 No 9

Published 1st May 2026


Nigeria

A tax maestro takes the reins

The new finance minister wants to double federal revenues but first has to address galloping poverty levels in the face of radical reforms

When Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu quietly dropped his longtime ally Wale Edun as Finance Minister on 21 April, describing the sacking as ‘a resignation on health grounds’, he drew a line under two years of arguments over policy and opted for Taiwo Oyedele, a former partner of British-based PwC auditors and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Tax Reform.

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